Badiene Magaziner
Badiene Magaziner, a highly sought out, international voice teacher, holds a Master of Music Degree in Voice from THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL, where she taught Voice for Dancers from 2015 – 2021. Badiene is the go-to voice teacher, recommended by New York’s top agents, managers, and casting directors for her ability to immediately identify issues and provide healthy solutions for clients to book the jobs.
Her students. both children and adults, past and present, have appeared in feature films, on television shows, on Broadway and in London’s West End, including Death Becomes Her, (Kolton Kraus), The Outsiders (Melody Rose), Dear Evan Hansen (Michael Lee Brown), Disney’s The Lion King, Moulin Rouge, Hadestown, Smash (Casey Garvin, Nicholas Matos), &Juliet (Jhailyn Farcon), The Music Man, (William Colin, JT Church) etc.
In 2006, Badiene was personally invited by renowned Metropolitan Opera star, Dolora Zajick to contribute her expertise during summer break at the Institute for Young Dramatic Voices.
MVS students have been accepted to all of the major colleges and universities’ musical theater programs, including The Juilliard School, University of Michigan, New York University, Manhattan School of Music. Pace University, Carnegie Mellon, Northwestern, Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Peabody Conservatory, Indiana University, University of Southern California, Harvard University, Yale University, Syracuse University, Ithaca College, many, early decision.
Badiene was awarded a full scholarship to The Juilliard School, where she studied voice with Beverly Peck Johnson and starred in La Bohème and Don Pasquale at The Juilliard Opera Theater. Upon graduation, Badiene was invited to star in numerous operas and operettas throughout Europe. She starred as Anna in The Merry Widow, Fiordiligi in Così Fan Tutte, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni with Benjamin Luxon and Nicolai Gedda, Eurydice in Orpheus and Euridice, and alternately as Mimi and Musetta in La Bohème. Together with Jose Carreras and Katia Ricciarelli, Badiene sang Musetta in a gala performance of La Bohème.
In a string of highly acclaimed Washington Opera performances at The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Badiene starred as Magda Sorel in GianCarlo Menotti’s The Consul, having been chosen for the role by the composer.
As a finalist in the Pavarotti International Voice Competition, she was invited by the Philadelphia Opera Company to perform the role of Echo in Ariadne auf Naxos.
Badiene also sang the title role of Tosca with the New Orleans Opera, Connecticut Opera, Virginia Opera, Boston Opera and the Buffalo Opera. As a teen, Badiene won a contract to tour in Sweet Charity with the legendary Chita Rivera and Gwen Verdon.